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• Jul 15, 202624x their median

  Ann Widdecombe schools a roomful of woke students on the importance of free speech. "Only two sorts of people oppose free speech... snowflakes and totalitarians." "Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings." "It is an occupational hazard of living in society. And if you really can't take it, become a hermit." "No matter how much we may disagree with somebody, we should defend to the hilt their right to say it." "You succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away. You get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said." "You may feel virtuous today in what you will not hear, but tomorrow somebody may feel virtuous in not hearing what you have to say." "Free speech is for all, not for the privileged few."

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• Oct 1, 20262.7x their median

  🔥 International lawyer Natasha @HausdorffMedia rips into Macron, Burnham, Sánchez, Wong and Erdoğan for their lies and hypocrisy on Israel. World leaders used the UN podium to put Israel on trial. UN Watch brought brave British barrister Hausdorff to put their claims on trial. https://t.co/tL1sOftniU

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• Jul 23, 20262.1x their median

  This stinks to high heaven. Prime Minister Albanese hosts a secret harbourside dinner with a dodgy Chinese billionaire — the very same character the Australian Tax Office is relentlessly chasing for over $200 million in unpaid taxes — and then pockets a million-dollar cash donation straight into Labor Party coffers. Gee, what a mystery: Why on earth would a high-roller the ATO is hunting for $200 million-plus suddenly hand over a million bucks to the Labor Party? Especially when the whole grubby deal was brokered by none other than Dan Andrews. It’s not rocket science — follow the money. But don’t hold your breath waiting for a single word of this from the corrupt ABC. Their selective silence speaks volumes. Australia is going backwards by every measure - including corruption. https://t.co/D7XgCHfN5s

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• Jul 17, 20261.9x their median

  We live on a largely pleasant, yet historically cool world, where average temperatures hover around 15C. This current baseline includes the 1.4C rise since the start of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. We are rarely reminded Earth's climate is roughly 10 degrees 'colder' than the long-term global average of 18C to 26C across hundreds of millions of years. A warmer climate would not be a crisis, and never has across the history of biological life. Humans and our unique, symbolism-based culture evolved against this cooling, drying backdrop of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which has lasted 34 million years since the glaciation of Antarctica. We are currently in its coldest phase — the Quaternary glaciation — which has endured for 2.58 million years. Almost all human civilisation - and our acute sense of modernity - arrived during a brief, 11,700-year warm interglacial oasis known as the Holocene. This demonstrates that we are an 'ice age adapted' species, as are all modern mammals. Yet the current climate crisis is built around an institutional dogma, which ignores this vast geological history, operating as if the earth works just like a greenhouse, which it doesn't. It's all complex. While orbital cycles dictate the 'macro' climate epochs of the Earth over millennia, the current debate focuses entirely on the 'micro' trend of the last 250 years. Our planet is constantly responding to the orbital aberrations identified by Milutin Milanković. Over the short term, this changeability comes from natural variability in solar radiance, ocean currents, atmospheric water vapor and volcanic activity; over the deeper long term, it is guided by the ponderous tectonic creaking of continental plates. The world's oceans, water vapor and clouds contribute 50% to 70% of atmospheric warming. The geological record reveals that only after the oceans — especially the Southern Ocean — have warmed for centuries does dissolved CO₂ outgas from the deep waters, a process unfolding over 5,000 to 10,000 years. To focus exclusively on a trace gas like CO₂ is to ignore the true scale and power of these natural systems. Furthermore, the narrative completely missed the biological utility of this gas: NASA satellite data has shown a significant increase in global green foliage over recent decades, largely driven by elevated CO₂ levels acting as an airborne fertiliser. This green wave, alongside booming global agriculture, was entirely unanticipated by backers of the crisis agenda. Today, this narrative runs directly counter to thermodynamic reality: we simply cannot run a modern economy without high-density fossil fuels, a baseline power that wind and solar cannot replicate. To pretend otherwise is to forget our place in the natural world, where we live largely by chance, and only as invited guests — not as Overlords.

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• Jul 6, 20261.9x their median

  Stand and applaud. It takes a special type of ‘genius’ to achieve the highest inflation rate in developed world. https://t.co/UsCLl5b8ce

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• Sep 22, 20261.6x their median

  After pocketing more than $16 million of taxpayers’ money from the Albanese government, Channel Nine can no longer credibly claim to be an independent news organisation. It now looks less like a newsroom and more like a well-funded propaganda arm of the Albanese regime. That is why Nine’s latest stunt is so revealing. It flew a reporter to the United States, sat down with a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and then tried to smear One Nation by association. That is not journalism. It is a grubby political hit job dressed up as current affairs. Nine was once among the most trusted companies in Australia. That reputation is gone. It has surrendered its credibility, and it can no longer be trusted. Kerry Packer would be rolling in his grave. This is not an isolated embarrassment. It is another example of how far Australia has slid: a government that subsidises the media that covers it, and a once-proud network that takes the money and then does the government’s dirty work.

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• Jul 21, 2026

  DEMOCRACY SUBVERTED A functioning democracy can only survive with fiercely independent media that ruthlessly holds the government to account. But this rotten, stinking, utterly corrupt Albanese regime isn’t satisfied with the taxpayer-funded ABC already spewing endless government propaganda. No — they’ve gone further and brazenly hijacked Australia’s democracy with their sleazy $74 million “Journalism Assistance Fund” — a filthy slush fund of public money that Albanese is personally slinging to his mates in the media. This is nothing less than wholesale bribery of the press. Here are just a few of the 184 media outlets now on Albanese’s payroll, happily sucking at the taxpayer teat: Fairfax Media Limited (SMH, The Age, AFR): $8,163,870 The Nine Network: $7,962,240 Channel 7: $5,594,160 WIN TV: $1,673,100 The Conversation: $1,033,890 Australian Radio Network (KISS, Gold): $978,120 The Chinese Herald: $600,600 The moment any media outlet pockets this dirty government cash, it stops being a news organisation and becomes a paid propaganda arm of the Albanese regime — a compromised subsidiary that cannot be trusted to tell the truth, only to parrot the party line. This isn’t journalism. This is state capture. This is democracy for sale — and Albanese is the one holding the auction - using taxpayers money. Australia is in huge trouble.

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• Jul 13, 2026

  Maybe Albanese needs to listen to another voice other than the ones in his office. 👏🏼🇦🇺 https://t.co/3Dk3nZymhf

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• Aug 14, 2026

  Ray Hadley just dropped a truth bomb. Zen Energy – South Australia’s second biggest renewables supplier – has collapsed into liquidation with $1 billion in debts. Losses exploded from $69 million to $322 million in a single year. Chris “Casanova” Bowen keeps telling us coal is dead, gas is dirty, and nuclear is completely off the table, renewables are the only future. Australia was sold a pup. While other countries are racing to build nuclear, we’re still banned from even having the debate. The result? Collapsing renewable companies and an energy system that can’t keep the lights on without coal and gas. We need coal, gas and nuclear. The sooner this government wakes up, the better.

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• Sep 26, 2026

  Enough of this division. We don’t need to be welcomed into our own country like foreigners. Every country has layered histories of settlement and migration. Treating one pre-modern occupancy as the only authentic claim turns history into a weapon and tells most citizens they are interlopers. That produces resentment, not cohesion. A nation belongs to its citizens, not a ritual that treats most of us as guests. Citizenship isn’t a visitor pass. Australians find this alienating, not unifying.

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